Visiting artist vanessa german invites you to partake in an intimate power figure workshop. german’s power figures are made from discarded materials sourced from the community and folk art and African art influences. Create an expressive figure of your own that emphasizes vibrancy through emotion and energy!

Materials will be provided. Participants are also welcome to bring a small bag of their own beads and embellishments.

REGISTRATION IS LIMITED. Two sessions will be offered, each limited to 35 participants.

• Session 1: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
• Session 2: 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Sign up here: Session 1 or Session 2

vanessa german is a self-taught citizen artist working across sculpture, performance, communal rituals, immersive installation, and photography, in order to repair and reshape disrupted systems, spaces, and connections. The artist’s practice proposes new models for social healing, utilizing creativity and tenderness as vital forces to reckon with the historical and ongoing catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir.

This event accompanies the Art Bridges loan of Black Girl on Skateboard Going Where She’s Got to Go to Do What She’s Got to Do and It Might Not Have Anything to Do With You, Ever by vanessa german.

Support for this program is provided by Art Bridges.